I finally have found the time to sit and blog about CHA! It has been a complete whirlwind for us since day 1 of the show. All I can say is WOW! Our booth was busy from the time the doors opened, to the time they closed. Janet and I could not even talk to each other about who stopped by, we had to literally go out the back door to keep caught up on all the AWESOME contacts we made. I really don't know where to start. Yes I do, our design team!! Without them, we would not have all this praise on our company. Thank you guys so much! I hope you get your name out in the publishing community tenfold! You are each so very talented! Michelle Klomp, we owe you a million. Without you and your email from day 1 asking if we had a design team yet, thank you thank you thank you! We really enjoyed meeting you in person, I am just bummed we could not have spent more time with you. We will in the future. Their will be plenty of opportunities for us to be together.
Where do I start?? We are publishing our first book! The publishing company actually took our samples off our booth on day 4 and sent them straight to the photo studio. This will be a 22 page book on our acrylic and all the cool stuff you can do to our product. Don't be fooled by the "imatation" acrylic out there, ours can be dry embossed and manipulated without cracking and showing stress marks. It is a unique material we have come up with to do what we are wanting. A 2nd publishing company came to us and "borrowed" yet more samples to be included in their "current" book being printed. This should be in stores in March. We will keep you posted!!
We got a call today from our local news station. Someone leaked to the press that we are now worldwide with our sales. AWESOME! We were wanting to do a press release, just haven't had the time yet. It aired tonight on our news channel. PLEASE go to it and watch it!! www.wgem.com
We are filming (not us, Judi at Judi Kins) a WEBISODE on www.tvweekly.com on our acrylic albums. Please go there also and log in to get notified of mini classes they offer, weekly!! I will post our webisode on our site when its available. After these mini classes, you can print out the instructions for what you just watched! Be sure to check this site out! 1000's of ideas here!!
I am sure their is more, but I will stop here for tonight. PLEASE if you like our samples, pay our designers a visit and tell them GOOD JOB! We have CHA Summer to plan for now ;) :) www.clearscraps.com
Thank you for all your support by following our blog. I enjoy sharing such good news to the ones who believe in us! Especially our husbands! What a strong support team!! Jackie & Janet

Our CHA Booth!!

It has been 2 days now of "fluffing" & "rearranging", but I think we are just about there!  Here is a couple pictures of our booth.  We know, CHA July, we will have a BIGGER booth!  We will have too, with all the product & samples we'll have!  We have made some AWESOME contacts over the last couple of days!  We are now a distributor for ZIP DRY!  (that just happened about 2 hours ago!) We want to encourage EVERYONE to go to www.glitzdesigns.com and check out their cool stuff!  We have teamed up with them for all 2008!  Their "frosting" is to die for!  They have moldable bling that works perfect with our Clear Albums!  You will start too see this and more very soon, in our store!!  I have to go now, we have been requested to go back to the "Spell Binders" booth and demo our product, on their machines!  We may be demoing in "our new friends" at the show also!  I like to play with other machines, WAIT TILL YOU SEE THEIR NEW MACHINE!!! (hint hint) I will keep you posted as to our product with their machines!  I have to go play now!!!  Talk to you again real soon, I hoping!  Don't forget, we are at Booth #519, right inside the door!  We have an awesome booth!  Jackie

We Are On Our Way to CHA!!

Hey everyone!! We made it to St. Louis and are anxiously awaiting our flight!!! We have 15 suitcases PACKED, not to mention the MANY boxes we previously shipped on out to California to meet us. We are getting fired up! I will try my best to blog as often as I can while we are out there. I am so happy you guys are tracking us along the way. Thank you for being such a GREAT support system! We appreciate all your thoughts and prayers for us on this wonderful (busy) journey! Clear Scraps is definetly making a name for itself AROUND THE WORLD!! We shipped to Australia MANY times this week, not to mention Finland, Italy & Canada!! Thanks to all of you for your nice warm comments. I will leave you with a pic of a small sampling of our inventory we left at home to be shipped when we return! Talk to you guys soon.... I will post pics of our booth as soon as I can! We will get in on Friday to start setting up. For now, Jackie.

PS. I want to mention the nice people at SRM Press who has personally invited us to her booth at CHA to do a demo on our product, and to Notion's Distribution where I will be working for 1 1/2 hours a day demoing at their booth also. Krylon will be showing off a sample they did on our product, and Glitz Design will also be scrapbooking one of our albums in their booth during the show!
Thanks to all of you for all your support in our adventure! We are looking forward to working with each and everyone of you very closely! We will add to this list! Good night!!

4 New Album Releases!!

We just released our newest members of our family!! ACRYLIC WORD BOOKS & more!! Our designers have been so busy playin, and doing a WONDERFUL job at that, we could not wait any longer to see the finished product! So far in the last week, the word books have proven to us these will the be rage at CHA! We are so looking forward to going and showcasing all our hard work. Only 13 days till we leave. Please, if you get a change, go visit our designers website and tell them what a great job they have been doing for us! We can't thank them enough. A few of them have even been picked to get published!! Way to go girls.... it's ok it was an album you did for our booth. We will forgive you.....Do it AGAIN!! Thanks everyone! Enjoy the Acrylic Albums! Make sure you get your local scrapbook store on our site to see what they could be missing!! Be sure to check our Idea Gallery now and again soon as we will be adding the newest designs to our site shortly. We will try to post again while we are at CHA to let everyone know the reaction we are receiving! Hopefully we can find a minute to blog. It is refreshing to know, hundreds of you read this everyday and enjoy knowing what we are up to. Thanks again for all you support, hope you like the albums!!

Happy Holidays!

I hope everyone reading this had a GREAT holiday this year! Janet & I have been busy the last couple weeks talking to our new design team members, designing our new albums coming out soon, and enjoying the holiday with our kids and family! I just posted a movie slide on a few of my favorite albums for 2007. I had a lot more picked out but had to narrow it somehow! :) Thanks for taking the time to read our blog! Watch us next year as we showcase our product around the nation! Thanks to each and everyone of you for your continued support in our company. Have a GREAT NEW YEAR! Jackie

A Quick Showcase of some of our Albums! Enjoy!

DT Winners!

Thanks to all the people for the the submissions for the Clear Scraps Design Team. I would like to apologize to all of you for the delay in picking the winners. The amount of people who sent emails for the design team was overwhelming, so there were many emails blogs and ideas to look at, and I had to do this while moving over the last week in the middle of ice storms. The work that everyone has sent has all wowed me. I said that I was going two pick to people for the design team in the call that I sent out, but was unable to narrow it down to only two, so I decided to make it three instead. So the winners for the Clear Scraps Design Team are:

Cathy Schellenburg from Canada
Lisa Falduto from Wisconsin
Nicole Patrizio from Ohio

I can't wait to see what you all come up with.

Thanks
Janet Blair
Clear Scraps